Cocktail Drinks Recipes To Ring In The New Year

Do you plan on inviting a few friends over to ring in the New Year? Here are some easy drinks that you can make to have a night festive.

Grapefruit Gimlet

Total Time: 5 min

Prep: 5 min

Yield: 1 serving

Level: Easy

Ingredients

• 2 ounces freshly squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice

• 2 ounces gin

• 1 tablespoon simple syrup

Directions

Add the grapefruit juice, gin and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Cover and vigorously shake for 30 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass filled with ice. Garnish with a small triangle wedge of grapefruit.

The Manhattan Cocktail

• 1 1/2 oz. Rye (Rittenhouse 100pf)

• 1.75 oz Sweet Vermouth

• .5 oz Grand Marnier

• 3 dashes Angostura Bitters

• 1 lemon twist, for garnish.

Add ingredients to a mixing glass. Add ice, stir and strain in a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with zest of lemon.

Champagne Cocktail

Prep Time: 3 minutes

Total Time: 3 minutes

Yield: 1 Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1/4 oz brandy

• 3/4 oz ruby port

• 3/4 oz orange juice

• 4 oz Champagne

Preparation:

• Pour the brandy, port and orange juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.

• Shake well.

• Strain into a Champagne flute.

• Top with Champagne.

Cosmopolitan Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1 oz vodka

• 1/2 oz triple sec

• 1/2 oz Rose's® lime juice

• 1/2 oz cranberry juice

Directions

Shake vodka, triple sec, lime and cranberry juice vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge on the rim, and serve.

A Goodnight Kiss

Ingredients

• 4 oz Champagne

• 1 splash Campari® bitters

• 1 sugar cube

• 1 drop Angostura® bitters

Directions

Place a drop of angostura bitters on a sugar cube and drop into a champagne flute. Add champagne and splash of campari.

Feel Like Holiday

Ingredients

• 1 cl vodka

• 1 cl grenadine syrup

• 10 cl Champagne

Directions

Stir vodka and grenadine with ice. Pour into a champagne-flute without the ice. Fill up with champagne

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